Bible Dictionary: Sweeping

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweep.

2. (a.) Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.

Greek

4563. saroo -- to sweep
... to sweep. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: saroo Phonetic Spelling:
(sar-o'-o) Short Definition: I sweep Definition: I sweep, cleanse by sweeping. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5464. sagrir -- steady or persistent rain
... very rainy. Probably from cagar in the sense of sweeping away; a pouring rain --
very rainy. see HEBREW cagar. 5463, 5464. sagrir. 5465 . Strong's Numbers.
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8429. tevah -- to be startled or alarmed
... to grieve. (Aramaic) corresponding to tamahh or perhaps to sha'ah through the
idea of sweeping to ruin (compare tavah); to amaze, ie (reflex. ...
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1641. garar -- to drag, drag away
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to drag, drag away NASB Word Usage chew
(1), drag them away (2), sawed (1), sweeping (1). catch ...
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5477. Suach -- an Asherite
... Suah. From an unused root meaning to wipe away; sweeping; Suach, an Israelite --
Suah. 5476, 5477. Suach. 5478 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Six Sweeping Statements.
... The "How" of Relationship Six Sweeping Statements. Jesus' own words make this very
clear. ... The most positive, and most sweeping utterances on prayer are here. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on prayer/six sweeping statements.htm

Chapter twenty-eight
... just below. He took another step down, still sweeping. The sweat ... to him. He took
another step down, still sweeping desperately. His fingers ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter twenty-eight.htm

And as She Stood Looking Towards London, Diamond Saw that She was ...
... And now there was nothing but the roofs of houses, sweeping along like a great
torrent of stones and rocks. ... "I am sweeping so fast over them.". ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 4 and as she.htm

The Lessons of the Street.
... It is an inspiring lyric, this inexhaustible procession, in the misty perspective
ever lost, ever renewed, sweeping onward between its architectural banks to ...
/.../chapin/humanity in the city/discourse i the lessons of.htm

England's Strength
... You heard then how this great Assyrian conqueror, Sennacherib, after taking all
the fortified towns of Judah, and sweeping the whole country with fire and sword ...
/.../kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon xiv englands strength.htm

The People among whom we Labour.
... generally held by Christians regarding the teaching of the Quran and its influence
in the formation of character, I cannot join in the sweeping condemnation of ...
/.../chapter xxviii the people among.htm

Diamond Became a Great Favourite with all the Men About the Mews. ...
... A sudden noise got up, and Diamond looked round to see what was the matter. There
was a crossing near the cab-stand, where a girl was sweeping. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 17 diamond became a.htm

The Christ Crowned, the Fact
... before. They put the name Jesus actually above every name in the experiences
of tense conflict and sweeping victory it stands for. ...
/.../i the christ crowned the fact.htm

The Carrion and the Vultures
... Take that story which people stumble over in the early part of the Old Testament
revelation"the sweeping away of those Canaanitish nations whose hideous ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the carrion and the vultures.htm

The Hand Felt Its Way up his Arm, And...
... It seemed sometimes that all the great billows of mist-muddy wind were woven out
of the crossing lines of North Wind's infinite hair, sweeping in endless ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 6 the hand felt.htm

Thesaurus

Sweeping (3 Occurrences)
... litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before
it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a ...
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Draught (8 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The drawing of a bowstring. 4. (n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the
water for fish. ... 10. (n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net. 11. ...
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Besom (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The rendering of a Hebrew word meaning sweeper, occurs
only in Isaiah 14:23, of the sweeping away, the utter ruin, of Babylon. ...
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Sweepings (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the
sweepings of a street. Multi-Version Concordance Sweepings (2 Occurrences). ...
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Sweep (34 Occurrences)
... 11. (n.) The act of sweeping. 12. ... 25. (n.) The sweeping of workshops where precious
metals are worked, containing filings, etc. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Oppresseth (8 Occurrences)
... (KJV ASV DBY WBS). Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like
a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). ...
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Oppressing (11 Occurrences)
... to want. (YLT). Proverbs 28:3 A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, 'Is'
a sweeping rain, and there is no bread. (YLT). Jeremiah ...
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Gezer (14 Occurrences)
... Today the Jerus-Jaffa railway, after sweeping some miles away in the plain round
the whole western and southern sides of the site, passes along this open vale ...
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Windstorms (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South
sweeping on, it cometh from the wilderness, from a dreadful land. (See NAS). ...
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Whirlwind (33 Occurrences)
... It usually has a rapid progressive motion. 2. (n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping
violently onward. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WHIRLWIND. ...
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Bible Concordance

Sweeping (3 Occurrences)

Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 21:1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
(See JPS NIV)

Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS)

Subtopics

Sweeping

Related Terms

Draught (8 Occurrences)

Besom (1 Occurrence)

Sweepings (2 Occurrences)

Sweep (34 Occurrences)

Oppresseth (8 Occurrences)

Oppressing (11 Occurrences)

Gezer (14 Occurrences)

Windstorms (1 Occurrence)

Whirlwind (33 Occurrences)